KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Paralympic Affiliation (JPA), in collaboration with the Americas Paralympic Committee (AmPC), will this month embark on a groundbreaking initiative to strengthen the area’s capabilities in para fencing and para powerlifting.
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This system will ship each athlete classification and technical coaching, marking one other decisive step in Jamaica’s position as a frontrunner in Caribbean Parasports improvement.
This activation follows on the heels of final month’s intensive monitor and area coaching camp for Caribbean coaches and athletes, staged in partnership with Commonwealth Sports activities and the College of the West Indies, Mona. Constructing on that momentum, JPA President and AmPC Govt Board member Christopher Samuda described the affiliation’s academic efforts as “launching missions into the universe and college of coaching and schooling with the objective of conquering the recognized and unknown in Parasports development and improvement.”
Palms-on coaching from world authorities
Coaches, sport officers, and different key stakeholders will participate in immersive coaching camps led by worldwide consultants from World Abilitysport (Wheelchair Fencing) and World Para Powerlifting.
The curriculum will cowl a variety of competencies — from athlete classification and sport-specific guidelines to tools dealing with, sensible workshops, occasion group, and athlete help techniques. By exposing contributors to world-class technical information, the JPA goals to raise requirements throughout the area, making certain Caribbean athletes and officers are on par with the most effective on the planet.
Jamaica’s position as a regional hub
The Worldwide Paralympic Committee (IPC) has designated Jamaica because the hub for Caribbean Parasports improvement — a recognition Samuda calls “an earned alternative for Jamaica to affect and impression regional improvement of not solely coaches but in addition classifiers and Worldwide Technical Officers (ITOs) in pursuit of the objective of getting a number of Caribbean classifiers and ITOs officiating and creating historical past in LA 2028.”
This imaginative and prescient aligns with the JPA’s strategic framework, which focuses on institutional capability constructing and grassroots improvement in partnership with entities such because the Growth Financial institution of Latin America and the Caribbean and the AmPC.
Laying the groundwork for a centre of excellence
One of many program’s flagship outcomes would be the institution of a Parasports Excessive Efficiency Centre devoted to serving the Caribbean. Samuda envisions it as greater than only a coaching facility: “The intention is for an optimum expertise in bodily schooling, tradition and efficiency wrapped in a Caribbean centre of excellence and legacy creation,” he mentioned.
With Jamaica already making waves in para athletics, this expanded concentrate on fencing and powerlifting may pave the best way for broader regional success — and doubtlessly historic illustration — on the world stage.
